Startup Reseau

This is the programme with the clearest open intake on the site. It runs in four phases across about five months: a wide sourcing round, a two-week virtual bootcamp for a shortlist, a sixty-day incubator cohort, and a final accelerator month ending in a Demo Day in Mumbai.

What you get

• Mentorship from founders, industry leaders and deep tech specialists
• Introductions to potential customers and corporate partners to validate use cases
• Structured feedback on your technology, business model, product-market fit and commercial strategy
• Help preparing your pitch, financials, metrics and data room for institutional investors
• A Demo Day pitch in Mumbai for the top five startups, in front of investors, corporate funds and ecosystem partners
• A possible seed investment from Unicorn India Ventures for the top performer, subject to due diligence

Who can apply

• You have a working prototype, minimum viable product or validated technology, not just an idea
• Your founding team has the technical expertise to build, improve and scale it
• You have proprietary technology, intellectual property or a strong technical moat
• You are solving a clearly defined customer or industry problem with a credible path to commercialisation
• Your startup is registered in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana or Odisha

The named focus areas are energy, semiconductors, space, defence, biotech and agritech.

How selection works: a large sourcing round narrows to a hundred startups for the virtual bootcamp, then twenty for the incubator cohort, then a top five for the accelerator and Demo Day.

How to apply: use the Apply button on the programme page, which opens an online application you fill in while signed in to a Google account. Selected startups get travel and accommodation support for the Demo Day. The bootcamp charges a participation fee, which the twenty startups taken into the incubator get back in full.

Torque is Startup Réseau's own market access programme. It runs as a three-month cohort and is built around introductions rather than curriculum — the idea is that you keep building the product while the programme works on your route to customers.

What you get

• Customer conversations through one-to-one corporate introductions and warm intros
• Visibility through curated events, media features and speaking slots
• Space at Startup Réseau Labs in Mumbai, covering room for up to three people from your team
• A showcase slot at NeXTT, the company's corporate innovation summit

Who can apply

• Business software and enterprise tech companies selling to other businesses

How to apply: the Torque banner on the home page links to an online application form. Check the dates before you fill it in — the form has been open for some time.

EarthLab is run with the Sunil Bhatia Startup Resource Hub at SPJIMR. It is a short, fully online programme aimed at early-stage teams working on climate, sustainability and agriculture, and it takes no equity.

What you get

• A structured curriculum over thirty days
• Sessions with expert speakers
• One-to-one mentoring on product strategy, go-to-market plans and investor pitches

Who can apply

• Early-stage startups building solutions in climate, sustainability or agriculture

How to apply: the EarthLab banner on the home page links to the application. Dates are not published on Startup Réseau's own pages, so confirm the intake window on the application page.

GrowthX is the company's own brand of accelerator. The bootcamp is a short, sales-led intervention for founders who have the fundamentals but not the process — building a sales playbook, working out how to sell to enterprises, and setting up internal checklists that make growth repeatable.

What you get

• Modules on sales playbooks, outside-in selling, internal process and content
• Sales frameworks and a working distinction between enterprise, business software and SaaS selling
• One-to-one mentoring, workshops, real-time feedback and corporate introductions
• Sessions with mentors and investors, and a Demo Day
• Continued alumni support after the programme

Who can apply

• Business software and enterprise tech startups operating for less than three years
• Still early on revenue, with the potential to sell across several industries and geographies

How to apply: through the GrowthX page. No intake dates are published, so write to the company to ask when the next cohort runs.

WE Sprint is the women-founder track of GrowthX. It runs fully online over thirteen weeks and condenses the core of business growth into twenty-six sessions across six modules.

What you get

• Modules covering business building blocks, ideal customer profile, technology and legal, marketing and operations, a sales playbook, and fundraising
• Mentorship from industry leaders, domain experts and founders who have done it
• Industry connections, international networks and a peer community
• A Demo Day in front of investors, mentors, corporates and media

Who can apply

• Women founders building technology ventures
• Open to founders from emerging markets in South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa

How to apply: through the GrowthX page. Intake dates are not published on the site.

Future50 is Startup Réseau's youth entrepreneurship platform, aimed at building the founder as much as the company. It aims to work with at least fifty student entrepreneurs a year across its programmes, and the accelerator itself is a hundred-day structured run for teams with a minimum viable product.

What you get

• Leadership development and structured mentoring
• Business-building sprints, go-to-market planning and investor readiness work
• One-to-one idea validation with mentors and experts

Who can apply

• Early-stage founders building scalable ventures, typically students and recent graduates

How to apply: register through the Future50 page. No cohort dates are published.

A short, intense programme where students form teams, work on real challenges, prototype a solution and pitch to a jury. It is the entry point to the Future50 ladder rather than a programme for an existing company.

What you get

• Seven days of hands-on workshops and team-based problem solving
• Mentorship from industry experts
• A pitch session in front of a jury

Who can apply

• Aspiring student entrepreneurs aged 18 to 25
• Open to students from all backgrounds

How to apply: register through the Future50 page, which lists the bootcamp as one of its programmes.

Kettle brings venture building into the classroom for final-year undergraduates. Students work through a hypothesis, test, validate and build cycle on a real idea, with mentoring from industry experts and founders, and earn two academic credits for it.

Who can apply

• Fourth-year undergraduate students at a partner college
• Currently running with École Intuit Lab, a French design school

This is a campus programme, not an open intake. If you are not enrolled at a partner college you cannot apply to it directly.

BharatNetra is a flagship programme of the Government of Odisha, run from a FinTech Centre of Excellence in Bhubaneswar in partnership with the Global Finance and Technology Network in Singapore. Startup Réseau describes itself as the implementation partner. The programme's own site presents it as run by that network, so check with the programme directly about who you would be working with.

The first incubator cohort began in March 2026 and its application window has closed. The accelerator track still invites registrations.

Who can apply — incubator

• Fintech, insurtech or technology with embedded finance preferred
• An incorporated business
• A minimum viable product or early traction
• No more than eighteen months since incorporation

Who can apply — accelerator

• Fintech, insurtech or technology with embedded finance preferred
• An incorporated business, worked on full time
• More than eighteen months since incorporation
• Existing revenue, funding raised, or both

What you get

• Sessions on building for India, go-to-market strategy, enterprise partnerships and the regulatory environment
• Fundraising approaches, pitch refinement and mock pitch sessions
• Office hours with experts, and for the accelerator, investor introductions and exposure at global fintech forums

How selection works: applications, then shortlisting, then founder interviews, then final selection.

How to apply: register on the BharatNetra startup programmes page. The link from Startup Réseau's own home page points at a preview address rather than the live page.

Run with Enterprise Singapore under the Global Innovation Alliance, this programme helps Singapore companies enter India. It runs in three phases: a two-week virtual Explore phase to decide whether India is worth committing to, a six-week Build accelerator with business and government introductions and a week in India, and a three-month Grow phase of tailored lead generation and partner introductions.

Who can apply

• Singapore-based innovative and emerging tech companies and small and medium enterprises looking to expand into India

Indian founders are not the audience for this one. It is listed here because it is one of the programmes Startup Réseau is currently advertising.

How to apply: through the Apply link on the GIA banner on the home page.

Gateway 91, also written G91, is a market immersion programme for people arriving from outside India. It mixes virtual weeks with a week on the ground, built around conversations with regulators and policymakers, visits to fintech hubs, meetings with senior executives and investors, and personalised business meetings.

Who can apply

• Startup founders, ecosystem enablers, corporate executives, government representatives and investors based outside India

The programme page describes an earlier edition, so confirm the current dates before applying.

How to apply: through the Apply link on the Gateway 91 banner on the home page.

Startup Bridge Canada runs the opposite way to most of the market programmes: it is for Indian companies looking outward. It is a six-week programme designed to support up to fifty growth-stage Indian startups in building a North American expansion strategy, with business development, partnerships and investor introductions.

Who can apply

• Business software, enterprise tech and deep tech ventures
• Growth-stage companies that have either raised institutional funding or are generating steady revenue

No current intake dates are published and there is no live application route on the site, so treat it as between intakes and ask before planning around it.

She Loves Tech is a global startup competition for women and technology that runs across more than seventy countries. Startup Réseau is its official India partner, which means it runs the regional pitches, provides mentorship and connects Indian entrants into the global network.

Who can apply

• Startups that are either founded by women or building something with a positive impact for women

This is the global competition's programme, not Startup Réseau's, so the calendar and the rules are set by She Loves Tech. Check its own site for the current round.